A half-day session with fun hands-on demonstrations exploring Energy. The taster event is followed by a series of workshops delivered in participating schools. The event is best suited to students who are just about to start or are just starting their GCSEs. Activities include:

Over half a million citizen scientists are contributing to the cutting edge research projects that make up The Zooniverse. Beginning in 2007 with galaxy classification at Galaxy Zoo, there are now 12 projects ranging from transcribing ancient Greek papyri to analyzing light curves in the search for exo-planets.

Students: Schools are invited to bring a team of 4-5 students at Key Stage 3Cost: Free

Students will complete a series of activities and technological challenges, all of which are designed with an Olympic theme and involve exploring materials, forces and structures. Activities include explore aerodynamics in a model wind tunnel.

The Accelerate! show allows you to get up close and personal with the exciting world of particle and accelerator physics.

You’ll learn how particle accelerators can do everything from recreating conditions just after the Big Bang to finding new ways to treat cancer, as well as finding out how to drive the World's biggest machine—the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

Leverhulme Lecture

Lost in Intergalactic Space

You've signed up for a mission to travel to the nearest star.
Unfortunately due to a computer error you end up travelling in
hibernation through space at a tenth of the speed of light for a billion
years. This talk is about where you end up, how we know what the
remotest possible regions of the Universe are like, and why studying
them can tell us more about the beginning (and fate) of the Universe
than anywhere else. You may also find out how to get back home again.

A one-day conference at Oxford Physics to give A-level teachers an opportunity to learn about the phenomena and scientific challenges which connect astronomy, particle physics and the physics of particle accelerators.

Motivation:
To bring together people working on telescopes and instrumentation across a range of wavelengths to provide an update on status and progress, identify synergies and consider how a healthy programme of technology and instrument development can be sustained into the future. Speakers will be encouraged to identify how the key technology developments, on which their instrument rely, came about.